[QIP-Sem] QIP seminar, Mon 5/10, 4:30, 36-462, Temme,Kristan

[Peter Shor]

MIT Quantum Information Processing seminar
Monday 5/10 at 4:30 in 36-462
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 Temme,Kristan (University of Vienna)

Quantum Metropolis sampling

Abstract:

Quantum computers have emerged as the natural architecture to study the physics of strongly correlated many-body quantum systems, thus providing a major new impetus to the field of many-body quantum physics. While the method of choice for simulating classical many-body systems has long since been the ubiquitous Monte Carlo method, the formulation of a generalization of this method to the quantum regime has been impeded by the fundamental peculiarities of quantum mechanics, including, interference effects and the no-cloning theorem. We overcome those difficulties by constructing a  quantum algorithm to sample from the Gibbs distribution of a quantum Hamiltonian at arbitrary temperatures, both for bosonic and fermionic systems. This is a further step in validating the quantum computer as a full quantum simulator, with a wealth of possible applications to quantum chemistry, condensed matter physics and high energy physics.

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